Re: C++ Question

From: Mr Hand (mrhand_at_gnarily.com)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:29:38 -0400

On 10 Mar 2005 02:28:08 -0800, consultant_image@yahoo.com
(ImageConsultant) wrote:

>Please give the ans. to the following question :-
> Q 1 Write a class which always allocate memory to its objects from heap only?

Why?

If you feel the class has too big a sizeof() to put on the stack then
just include that information in the documentation.

Otherwise there is no difference if an object is allocated on the heap
or in the stack.

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